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Is Recording quality the real culprit?

We spend Thousands on trying to improve the sound of what we listen to. But isn’t it really more of a problem that we can’t really overcome, eg. Recording quality? It’s so frustrating to have a really nice system and then to be at the mercy of some guy who just didn’t spend the time to do things better when things were being recorded.

Fortunately many artists make sure things are done well, but so many just don’t make it happen.

It can sound really good but just doesn’t have that Great quality we desire.

So why are we wasting our time spending so much money on audio equipment?

emergingsoul
bolong
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phd
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If everything else is OK, the weakest link is the quality of the recording, compounded by the fact that our hearing declines with age You're not going to win folks. But I'll be damned if I am going to have a steady diet of only the very best recordings and forgo my favorite music.

moto_man
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I think that maybe you can’t polish a turd, but perhaps you can get rid of the smell, LOL!  Growing up in the ‘70’s, I have listened to most of the classic rock from that period hundreds of times, such as Led Zep and Jerthro Tull.  Having heard the commercial release so many times, I have been drawn to bootlegs from that era, sometimes concerts that I actually attended.  I have found that with a good, well-balanced system, like I have I think, even the bootlegs that are not great sound better on my system because of the way that the soundstage is presented, with depth and width, so even if the SQ can’t be improved, the listening experience can be.  I am very pleased with the way my system presents everything, good or bad.  Good quality recordings sound amazing and bad quality recordings sound less bad.

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